Sentences with phrase «desperate quest»

Maps to the Stars (R for profanity, sexuality, graphic nudity, disturbing violence and drug use) David Cronenberg directs this dysfunctional family drama examining a Hollywood dynasty's desperate quest for fame and fortune, including a TV psychologist (John Cusack) whose stage mom spouse (Olivia Williams) is managing the career of their child star son (Evan Bird).

Naturally Jerry is reluctant to leave them, but duty, and the threat of sending said family ashore, send him into the fray and on that ci - mentioned desperate quest to find out the origins of why people are suddenly turning into the zombies, and, of course, how to stop it.

Through AFI's Narrative Labs project, with support from the Sundance Institute and New York's Cinereach organization (which has also helped produce small, memorable films from Citizenfour to Beasts Of The Southern Wild), Howe was able to complete Gabriel, which stars Rory Culkin as a young man navigating a mental illness that distances him from his caring and frustrated family, and leads him on an increasingly desperate quest throughout the film.

Tennessee voluntarily sent an excellent coach away 10 years ago; every year since has been a desperate quest to get back what the Vols had.

It can be a desperate quest when there's a major national story and you want in on it, but this time it landed right in my lap.

Part of me feels like that toy would have to be made out of salmonella - coated plutonium to deter me from my desperate quest.

A naive romantic goes on a desperate quest for love when his longtime AskMen's Dating channel offers you all the advice you need to become a Better Man in romance and relationships.

Rather, this Red Sparrow, written by Justin Haythe, seems to be about the desperate quest to get one sexy woman very naked.

When she comes to, Sharon is gone, and suddenly Rose must enlist the help of a determined police officer (Laurie Holden) from a nearby town to help on her desperate quest to find her child.

This dramatic short film about a son's desperate quest to help his sick father is set to debut April 22nd on the JASH Youtube channel.

s a true tale of overwhelming regret based on «The Lost Child of Philomena Lee,» Hixsmith's heart - wrenching account of their desperate quest.

In a desperate quest to find a cure, the timid widow seeks help from the mysterious and dangerous Rats of NIMH — and inadvertently stumbles upon their secret.

When she comes to, Sharon is gone, and suddenly Rose — accompanied by a determined police officer (Laurie Holden) from a nearby town — is on a desperate quest in Silent Hill to find her child.

He uses every trick in the book — animated interludes, lightning - fast edits, still frames, slow motion, you name it — and perhaps even a few more to capture the adrenalized anxiety of Lola's desperate quest.

It is an odyssey of a 16 - year - old boy (Charlie Plummer, «All the Money in the World») who becomes attached to a doomed horse and undertakes a desperate quest for support in a world that has suddenly left him alone, attempting to make sense of an America that has lost its moorings.

And in her desperate quest to find herself after losing almost everything, Miranda and Dix could pay a higher price than they ever imagined.

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaninglessness and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection.

Nor can we any longer ignore the threat of water shortages and famine that may pit us against formerly friendly neighbors and nations in a desperate quest for our personal survival, Flannery notes.

A Soviet nuclear sub commander's desperate quest to escape to the West with his vessel.

A flotilla of small vessels set off into Mexico's Upper Gulf of California before daybreak on Friday, launching a daring and desperate quest to prevent the extinction of a species.

The Fall has been out for a while, but this eerie tale of an AI spacesuit on a desperate quest to save its ailing occupant has now found its way to Nintendo Switch.

It's unpretentious fun, making up its eponymous trilogy with remastered versions of the first two Nazi Zombie Army campaigns, plus a final one rounding out the story — demonic Hitler raising the dead to overwhelm the Allies, a desperate quest to find an ancient artifact to undo the necromancy; y ’ know, the usual.

As his home, the Kingdom of Cavanis, languishes in blasphemy, Adam must face a series of trials in a desperate quest for redemption.

As players investigate a shadowy mansion in the dead of night after a near - fatal car crash, what started as a search for aid will become a desperate quest to unearth the secrets behind the manor's tortured past.